Example sentences of "[was/were] [that] [pron] [modal v] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The demands made by the rebels provide the clearest guide to their grievances , and according to the Anonimalle Chronicle those put forward by the Essex men at Mile End on 14 June were that they should be allowed to seize and punish traitors , and that no man should be made a serf nor do homage or any type of service to a lord in return for land ; instead they should hold it at a rent of 4d. an acre . |
| 2 | He did n't want to go to Switzerland : if he did go , the chances were that he would be interned there for the rest of the war . |
| 3 | It might attract visitors , but the study indicated that visitors ' attitudes towards such ostentation were that it would be reflected in the price of the products . |
| 4 | The desiderata for a good background at this point were that it must be perceived by the measuring instrument as significantly darker than the subject , it must be cheap and readily available , and it must be easy to mould it to the growth boxes , fix it to the wall , etc . |
| 5 | One of the hazards of the sudden death of infants was that they might be carried off before they had been baptised . |
| 6 | Their second greatest fear was that they might be forced to comply with her frequently telephoned suggestion , made purely from a sense of duty , that they should go to stay with her until the Whistler was caught . |
| 7 | It was said that the main fear of many army officers who were posted to India was that they would be eaten by a tiger . |
| 8 | Mike Ward , the shelter 's manager , said birds covered in oil became waterlogged and were unable to fly , but the biggest danger was that they could be poisoned . |
| 9 | The BBC 's proposed solution was that everything should be handled by the BBC and then licensed back to the publishers . |
| 10 | What he had n't mentioned was that we would be dining out in restaurants which had attracted a nod from Michelin , a faint damn from Gault-Millau or a paragraph of wet-dream prose in a British Sunday . |
| 11 | 373 , where the main contention of the defence , noted at p. 376h by Megaw L.J. , who delivered the judgment of the court , was that there must be implied into section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 a requirement that the dishonest appropriation must be without the consent of the owner of the property . |
| 12 | What worried her most of all was that she might be held in equal suspicion . |
| 13 | Her last wish was that she should be used for transplants . |
| 14 | ‘ The idea was that he would be taken up a couple of hundred feet , ’ said Gavin Birkett . |
| 15 | The reply was that he could be seen the following Wednesday for a fee of £45 . |
| 16 | The jury were directed by the trial judge that they could find him guilty only as actor , whereas the true position was that he could be found guilty either as actor or on the basis of art and part . |
| 17 | The answer given to the businessman was that he should be trying to assess the stream of future cash surpluses to be generated by each SBU . |
| 18 | The sentence was that he should be boiled in oil , the current punishment for prisoners . |
| 19 | The joke around at the time was that it would be filmed with a hand-held camera . |
| 20 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc , a key partner in Microsoft Corp 's NT-on-multiprocessors push , is believed to have sent Microsoft changes in the code to enable Microsoft to add 30-way processor support for NT some time ago , and the last minute expectation before launch of NT yesterday was that it would be included on the NT compact disk . |
| 21 | The mast was of the newly designed B.T-H ‘ B.2 ’ design with a sloping cap ; its principal advantage was that it could be turned through the full circle without damaging the internal cable . |
| 22 | The return expected for his political friendship was an additional post to augment his salary , and one advantage of a sheriffship was that it could be combined with another small office in the same district . |
| 23 | One of the main advantages of video as an aid was that it could be used during poor weather . |
| 24 | What was new about the Ro-railer was that it could be used on both rails and road . |
| 25 | The great merit of Emor was that it could be adapted to suit the requirements of almost any activity you cared to name . |
| 26 | The Crown 's case against L was that it could be inferred that the stolen property had come to his premises with his knowledge and by prior arrangement and therefore was in his control and possession ; and that he was therefore guilty of burglary or handling . |
| 27 | The advantage of a pillbox line was that it could be held with fewer men who could , therefore , be rotated more frequently : another morale-boosting factor . |
| 28 | The idea was that it should be directed by Jon Amiel , who directed Singing Detective and never got much credit for its success , but he did n't want to do it . |